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In lugnet.org.us, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> In lugnet.org.us, Larry Pieniazek writes:
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> > I'd say
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> > "NELUG may find that their policy may be detrimental in the long run"
> > is a comment,
> >
> > "NELUG are very wrong to not immediately change their policy"
> > is shading over to a chide, and
> >
> > "NELUG MUST change their policy immediately"
> > is rather a demand, wouldn't you say?
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> I would. But I wasn't really getting at a technical definition issue. From
> the perspective of posting to a newsgroup they're all functionally the same.
> They're just various opinions and regardless of how they're phrased, the NELUG
> readers will either ignore them or consider them as comments. For a demand to
> be truely inappropriate, it has to be backed by some kind of force.
Oh, you mean like "let's all join NELUG even though we have no interest in it
and don't live anywhere near the US NE, so that we can disrupt the consensus
the membership arrived at and change things to suit our opinions of how things
ought to be"?
That was said, and, joke or no, it was totally out of line as far as I am
concerned.
++Lar
> Chris
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